Billy Connolly had a good idea for an alternative way to have spent the money on Thatcher's funeral: Buy everyone in Scotland a new shovel and they'd did a hole deep enough to personally hand her over to Satan personally.
@@ShannonCarter55 Ok, he can go there first, he'd probably film a documentary about him trying to hike the length of the continent or something. THEN he comes to America. Plus I got to see Flash Gordon in a theater 2 months ago so I'm happy.
@Aslan T Vorlon Yeah, but that was just some friendly sparring, the premise of this show would be more like "BRIAN BLESSED beats up arseholes for your entertainment".
I click for the NOISE!!! it's BRIAN FUCKING BLESSED!!!!! I FUCKKINGG LOVE BRIAN BLESSED!!!! He's why I clicked as do others and then they bitch about the video, no matter what hate they shit into the comments, the video view still goes Up. good job.
@@rabidbigdog To me, the laughter rises up and dies down too fast for an audience, plus it's too much the same, every joke gets exactly the same burst of thick laughter.
FUN FACT: A 90-y.o. British lady aristocrat was supposed to be on Ian's team this episode -- she'd been on the show before, and had been warmly received -- but she'd been a close friend of Thatcher's and, when it became clear to her in the minutes immediately preceding the taping that they intended to basically roast dear ol' Maggie repeatedly on camera, the player-dame bowed out in a huff and went home. The producer's staff made a series of frantic phone calls, and the ONLY person with any name recognition they could get to come down to the studio within 30 minutes was Ken Livingstone! He showed up with just a few minutes to spare; the makeup artist was still working on him up to the moment before the opening sequence played. The alternative would have been either for one of the production staff to sit in, or to solicit a volunteer from the studio audience! They didn't feel they could get away with substituting a literal TUB OF LARD for the missing guest, as they'd done in the case of a more self-important no-show MP some time earlier. Ian Hislop recalls this event in capsule form on-air during another episode.
that would be the Baroness Trumpington, she pulled out at 730pm for an 8pm record, Livingstone was literally in the neighborhood, so he filled in. it's a great story in Brit Telly History.
Glad they could get Ken, but I seem to recall them having a handbag stand in for another guest on one episode so I'm sure they could have found something appropriate and amusing.
@@RIXRADvidz Very fitting that she had “Trump” as part of her name. It’s hard to believe that Thatcher and her cold dead heart were capable of being friends with anyone.
